TABLE OF CONTENTS A Message from the Director, October 2013..............................................................................................2 CMRS Hosts MAA–MAP at UCLA.........................................................................................................3 Lectures, Conferences, and other Events, 2013 – 2014........................................................................4 – 9 Visiting Faculty, Students, and Scholars..............................................................................................10–11 Distinguished Visiting Scholars, 2013 – 2014 CMRS Summer Fellows Ahmanson Research Fellows UCLA Visiting Scholars affiliated with CMRS Visiting Graduate Researchers Publications.....................................................................................................................................12 – 15 Viator Repertorium Columbianum Cursor Mundi Comitatus International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages–Online Other CMRS Publication Projects A Checklist of CMRS Events, 2013 – 2014....................................................................................16 – 17 Student Support and Programs........................................................................................................18 – 19 George T. and Margaret W. Romani Fellowship CMRS Travel Grants CMRS Seminars Ahmanson Research Fellowships for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Books and Manuscripts CMRS Research Assistantships Lynn and Maude White Fellowship Medieval and Early Modern Student Association (MEMSA) Medieval Research Group Research Projects and Grants...........................................................................................................20 – 21 Morgan Library Book Project Summer Institute Web-based Morphological Analyzer for Old Icelandic Carolingian Culture at Reichenau and St. Gall Mosfell Archaeological Project Donors and other Support.......................................................................................................................22 The Year in Review, 2012 – 2013....................................................................................................23 – 27 Faculty, Associates, and Affiliates......................................................................................................28 – 32 CMRS Staff, 2013 – 2014.......................................................................................................................33 A MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OCTOBER 2013 This year the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) commemorates turning fifty, an honorable occasion not only for those of us involved in the day-to-day operations at the Center, but for all our many friends and for UCLA itself. Over the last fifty years the diversity of our invited guests, and the numerous conferences held, have addressed almost every aspect of medieval and Renaissance culture, be it in art, architecture, history, literature, or the sciences. Our speakers have ranged from promising young lecturers at the outset of their academic career to world-famous established scholars, arriving from six continents. The Center’s success is largely due to the remarkable expertise of past directors who have steered its progress throughout our esteemed voyage—from the Center’s founder Lynn White, Jr., to my immediate predecessors Patrick Geary, Andy Kelly, Michael Allen, and Brian Copenhaver—and to our much appreciated and faithful friends, from within and outside the University, who have followed our events and supported us with enduring enthusiasm. With the academic year just begun, our celebrations will move into full gear. In addition to our weekly array of midday roundtable talks, we are presenting several notable events. On November 15 of this year, two scientists, two art historians, a semiotician, and a literary historian, will convene here at UCLA to discuss the intriguing subject of Renaissance emblems. In January, a number of the Center’s former directors have been invited—together with directors of other Centers for medieval and/or Renaissance Studies, as well as a number of young doctorate scholars recently graduated from UCLA—for a two day discussion on the present and future of our discipline. On February 7, we will hold a one-day symposium on Galileo and the intersections of literature, music, and science: “Galileo Galilei: The Pendulum, the Lute, the Pen.” And we will present two conferences in conjunction with the Getty Museum and Villa during this academic year: “Seeing and Reading in Twelfth-Century England,” on February 1-2, and “Heaven and Earth: Perspectives on Byzantine Greece,” on May 1-3. Finally, on April 10-12, we are honored to host the 2014 meeting of the Medieval Academy of America (MAA) and the Medieval Association of the Pacific (MAP) at UCLA, when over 350 colleagues and graduate students will gather to explore the theme of “Empires and Encounters” in more than 150 papers, panel discussions, and plenary lectures. CMRS last hosted the MAA annual meeting in 1980 and it especially appropriate that we welcome the Academy here again as we enter our 51st year. It is my sincere hope that you will join in our celebrations. Massimo Ciavolella Franklin D. Murphy Chair in Italian Renaissance Studies Director, CMRS FORMER CMRS DIRECTORS Lynn White, Jr., 1963–1970 Michael J. B. Allen, 1988–1993 Michael J. B. Allen, 2003–2004 William Matthews, 1970–1972 Patrick J. Geary, 1993–1998 Brian P. Copenhaver, 2004–2011 Fredi Chiappelli, 1972–1988 Henry Ansgar Kelly, 1998–2003 2 MAA - MAP 2014 at UCLA CMRS Hosts MAA-MAP at UCLA e Medieval Academy of America (MAA), founded About 150 papers have been accepted for presentation in 1925, promotes excellence in the eld of medieval in 54 sessions with topics such as “Imaging Byzantium,” studies. It is the largest organization of its kind in “Carolingian Voices,” “Empires of Fantasy,” “Crusade the world, currently having over 3,000 members Encounters,” and “Framing the Mediterranean.” from the US and abroad. Membership is open to Plenary speakers will be Professor Susan Boynton anyone with an interest in medieval studies. e (Music, Columbia University), Professor Robin MAA supports teaching, research, and publication Cormack (Invited Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics, in all aspects of medieval studies, including the arts, University of Cambridge; Professor Emeritus, History archaeology, history, language, literature, law, music, of Art, University of London), and MAA President philosophy, religion, science, and social and economic Professor Richard W. Unger (History, University of institutions. Speculum, the MAA’s internationally British Columbia). In conjunction with the MAA- acclaimed journal of medieval studies is published by MAP meeting, a special exhibition of medieval Cambridge University Press. e MAA oers a variety manuscripts is planned in the Department of Special of grants, awards, and fellowships to graduate students, Collections at UCLA’s Charles E. Young Research postdoctoral scholars, and faculty members. Library. e conference’s closing reception will be hosted by the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa Each year, the MAA holds an annual meeting hosted where an exhibition of Byzantine art, “Heaven and by a university, research center, or other institution in Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections,” will North America. e 2014 meeting will be held April have just opened on April 9. 10–12 at UCLA hosted by the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. People interested in attending the MAA-MAP meeting at UCLA can register through the links provided on the e Medieval Association of the Pacic (MAP), an CMRS or MAA websites later this fall. e complete organization of faculty, students, and scholars from program, as well as information about other events around the Pacic Rim (North America, Canada, Japan, associated with the meeting, will be available on the Australia, New Zealand) supporting interdisciplinary meeting website. For attendees who will be traveling to medieval studies, will hold its annual meeting jointly Los Angeles from out of town, there will be information with the MAA meeting at UCLA. CMRS has hosted on the website about hotel accommodations near MAP’s annual meeting in the past, most recently in 2007. UCLA. Special UCLA discounts will be available at select hotels for MAA-MAP meeting attendees. e theme of the 2014 MAA-MAP meeting is “Empires and Encounters.” e year 2014 marks the 1200th anniversary of the death of Charlemagne, whose empire claimed to have revived the fallen Roman Empire and set the stage for later imperial concepts in medieval Europe. Empires, however, never exist in isolation; by nature they create along their boundaries zones of contact between ethnic, religious, political and cultural groups that in turn challenge the concepts of center and periphery through various forms of encounter. Logos of the Medieval Academy of America (left) and the Medieval Association of the Pacic (right). e 2014 annual meeting of MAA and MAP will take place at UCLA on April 10-12, 2014, hosted by CMRS.. 3 LECTURES, CONFERENCES, AND OTHER EVENTS 2013 – 2014 Each year, the Center sponsors and co-sponsors a variety California Medieval History Seminar, Fall 2013 of lectures, seminars, colloquia, conferences, and other • Saturday, October 26, 2013 programs. The following events are currently planned for The Fall Session of California Medieval History Seminar the 2013-14 academic year: will meet at the Huntington Library to discuss